Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Weapons and Ammunition (hierarchy name)
5. weapons
6. armaments
7. edged weapons
8. staff weapons

Anotations

Scope note:

Short pole weapons, around 5 feet in length, having a retractable blade of either a one or three long thin points that were retracted into a hollow aperture inside the shaft. A sharp thrust of the weapon propelled the points out. The weapons were used by both infantry and civilians alike between the 16th and 19th centuries.